Ερώτηση Γιατι πρεπει να ειμαστε περιφανοι που ειμαστε ελληνες(ειναι στην αγγλιστι)

07/04/2007 12:18 #1 από Γιωργος Μπονης
WHY ARE WE PROUD FOR BEING GREEK



  · Because we are European Champions in football

· Because we buy whole watermelons and not in slices

· Because we buy whole lambs and not in pieces

· Because nights in Greece finish in the morning

· Because we take our coffee slowly, while smoking and not in "shots"

· Because flirting is our national hobby

· Because sex is our national sport

· Because we always moan about the public sector and everyone seeks to get a job in it

· Because we are not puritans

· Because we are not racists

· Because we go out almost every night even if we are penniless

· Because we know how to spend better that we know how to save

· Because we never visit others empty handed

· Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what is "kapsoura"

(burning desire for someone)

· Because in Greece family is still something valuable

· Because we do not share the petrol with those we take in our cars

· Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment

· Because for the sake of a woman we made war for 10 years (Trojan war)

· Because we are everywhere around the planet

· Because we love and hate with passion

· Because "filotimo" (friend of honor, helping someone because it is a

shame not to) doesn' t exist in any other language

· Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they use one of ours

· Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family,

not with shrinks

· Because Socrates, Pluto and Aristotle were Greek

· Because we invented theatre

· Because we gave birth to Democracy

· Because we discovered logic

· Because we jumpstarted science

· Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars

· Because when others were discovering meat, we already had cholesterol

· Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still

sleeping on trees

· Because we gave the light to all these leaders who are "striving" for

peace by making wars

· Because we can give anything up just to make love

· Because Hundreds of women travel to Greece every summer just to get

laid

· Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) & Agapi

(innocent love), while we feel both passionately

· Because Eros was a Greek God

· Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin were weaving

see-through linen

· Because "Greeks do not fight as heroes, heroes fight like Greeks"

(Winston Churchill, 1941)

· Because we don't use ketchup with our food - it tastes good anyway

· Because we gave our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our Medieval

alphabet to the Slavs

· Because we get angry quickly but we forget all about it even quicker

· Because we are not ashamed to cry

· Because we dance when we are sad

· Because we work to live and we do not live to work

· Because 97% of the stars' names are Greek

· Because although we know danger well, we dare

· Because when you shout "brother" in the streets everyone turns around

· Because we always talk about getting in a diet after we had our meal

· Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder

· Because we do not know what anxiety is

· Because we walk in the streets at 2:00 in the morning and there are

traffic jams

· Because we walk in the streets at 4:00 in the morning and there are

traffic jams

· Because girls are not scared to walk alone in the streets at 2:00 or

4:00 o'clock in the morning

· Because we are direct

· Because we never report people who cheat

· Because we always have a solution to problems, even if usually

indirect or illegal

· Because we have tendencies to extremity

· Because our parents do not forget that we exist when we reach 18

· Because when we want to sunbathe, we go to the beach, we don't crawl

on grass or jump into fountains

· Because we confront every difficulty with humor

· Because the Olympic games were born here

· Because with our (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the

message of peace

· Because our sky is blue, not gray

· Because we have the cleanest seas on the planet

· Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words

· Because we are a poor country with very rich citizens

· Because we know what "Kefi" (propensity to fun) means

· Because we like to spend money and eat fish while they are still

fresh

· Because Homer wrote Iliad 3500 years ago and Hollywood turned it into

a movie just recently

· Because in Greece nobody is hungry

· Because in Greece nobody is homeless

· Because we grow hallucigenic weed without biological engineering!!

· Because our "model for life" has many curves

· Because we wear sandals without socks

· Because we get paid on Friday and we end up owing money by Monday

morning

· Because we gave the oath "freedom or death"

· Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big hearts

To be better keep on practice!!!!!!!!

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